Catherine Frieman

Yup that was her experience too. She loved it and I'll bet your students do too

Yeah I'm not thinking dual credit, I'm thinking direct enrolment in uni classes alongside the ugs

Definitely agree. A friend went to a high school embedded within a flagship state uni campus and so got to choose between APs and just enrolling directly in 1st and 2nd year ug classes. She got a ton out of the courses she took and really enjoyed being in classes with the uni undergrads

I say this as a person who did a million APs in the late 90s and really should have just started uni at 16 but def couldn't have coped socially if i had

I know this exists more or less in some places but easy to access bridging programs should be universally supported through state universities (not community colleges which are great but do fundamentally different things)

Counterpoint: what we actually need are more systematic and structured co-enrollment programs for students who really would benefit from taking more advanced or independent coursework so they get hs appropriate socialisation and access to actual university classes

"what do you mean bluesky is an echo chamber," I demand as I join the time war against the Ingalls family

I don't know if it's the same vape shop, but my first trip to Glasgow after the pandemic i stood on that corner watching 6 ca 13 year olds trade around candy flavoured vapes they were getting people to buy for them. No moral, just a place memory

Last summer I recorded a podcast episode with @unterirdisch.bsky.social during my fellowship at the @college-uaruhr.bsky.social
We discussed #masculinities #violence and #warfare in #ancientEgypt
The recording is in German and you can listen to it on #Spotify!

open.spotify.com/episode/1ob4...

Black and white photo of Barbara Laidler washing a stone on West Kennet Avenue. Photo ©Alexander Keiller Museum.

Black and white photo of Margaret Stewart at the Carse Farm excavation in 1964. Photo from: https://breadalbane-heritage.org.uk/about/history/margaret-e-c-stewart-in-breadalbane-heritage-society/

Fun fact about us for #InternationalWomensDay - our 1st graduating students were women - Margaret Crichton Mitchell (later Stewart), 1st ever class🥇in #Archaeology MA 1930, PhD 1934 (Childe's only PhD student) & Barbara Laidler our 1st ever BSc Archaeology (c. 1930s)! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 🏺

The important thing to know is that I was sort of right ;) Ladas are 1000 kg or thereabouts, so cave bears a bit more or less than half by weight.

BUT WHAT ABOUT BY VOLUME

NYU professors set strike deadline, student resident advisors protest missed payments - The Chief At a rally staged just after New York University’s unionized full-time, non-tenure track faculty held their latest bargaining session with university management, union leadership announced that if the...

“Our union members do not want to go out on strike. This is something they have been pushed into doing. We’re hopeful that we will be able to resolve this without withdrawing our labor."

@UAWRegion9A

📰 www.thechiefleader.com/stories/nyu-...

it really is shocking how much self deprecation is seen as a cultural requirement for 'serious art.' 'real' artists are not allowed to exalt their work and must present it publicly as a sort of 'i dont think this is very good but maybe you will get around to it.' HECK THAT. love yourself

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My employer Canterbury Shaker Village lost a small NEH grant. I wrote it. I used words such as "equality" and "citizenship." The same words were used in CHATGPT to cancel grants.

The same words are in the nation's founding documents.

Attn and for your blocklists

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

'I'm not going to sit here and get killed': Trans lives in Trump's America Since Donald Trump returned to power last year, trans Americans say they feel dehumanised, unsafe and isolated from public spaces. For some, Australia has provided a safe haven.

Refreshing to read journalism engaging thoughtfully and complexly with a variety of trans folk and their experiences - US outlet's could and should also be doing this, but happy my aus taxes have supported this coverage

This is good and important work.... it is also crying out for some network modelling à la @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social analysis of "daversity"

Don't miss the upcoming SAA Online Seminar on Qualitative Data Analysis! On April 2, Nicole Bucchino Grinnan will be introducing archaeologists to new ways of applying qualitative methods to their research.

🔗 Info & registration here:
saa.org/SAAMember/Ev...

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

The Black Death’s counterintuitive effect: as human numbers fell, so did plant diversity New study finds that plant biodiversity collapsed in landscapes where arable production was abandoned during and after the Black Death era.

@trisnorton.bsky.social : you'll be interested in this. Discussion of a pollen study showing the relationship between mixed farming and plant biodiversity, impacted negatively by population decline during the Black Death. All those weeds around the margins lost theconversation.com/the-black-de...

'Technology was never historically neutral....In the post-colonial context, the neutrality of an algorithm is a fiction. When we talk about AI in an African context, we are talking about who gets to define intelligence and whose data is harvested to feed it.' 2/2

In post-colonial Africa, the ethical neutrality of AI is pure fantasy If we treat AI as a purely rational evolution of human intelligence, we risk repeating colonial erasure on a digital scale, says Agnieszka Piotrowska

'conversations about AI sound fundamentally different in Africa....There, debates about technocratic issues such as innovation, productivity, regulation and “safety” – the anxieties of the designer and the proprietor – are inseparable from histories of extraction and epistemic violence.' 1/2

I well watch any adaptation or staging of much ado about nothing

I usually go with "Archaeologists study people-things. It's palaeontologists who do the dino stuff"

I think imposter syndrome is more insidious than mere self-doubt—I think some of us are expected to experience it as a form of humility. Reject that, fam. Know yourself, and, where appropriate, *trust yourself*.

Lise Meitner Excellence Program Since 2018, up to ten further Lise Meitner Groups will be advertised to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists as part of the new Lise Meitner Excellence Program.

"The position as a Lise Meitner Group Leader will be advertised to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists... The Lise Meitner Groups are furnished with their own resources for their entire duration." Sounds like a great opportunity. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🏻‍🔬